The tupelo is celebrated for its exquisite honey and for being a harbinger of autumn--one of the first trees to offer a blaze of red and gold leaves. Tupelos are also a popular source of lumber and veneer. Tupelo's many uses include...

Van Morrison Tupelo Honey Polydor (B0010642-02) Grade: ***** It's Too Late to Stop Now Polydor (B0010643-02) Grade: ***** Among the recently issued remastered and expanded discs from Van Morrison's catalog, Tupelo Honey stands out as his artistic...

Busy humming broken by a hard tapping fills the clearing. Bees at work, and Ben Lanier loosening their honeycombs from weathered boxes.He harvests this tupelo honey only once a year, just after the white tupelo gum trees blossom in the swamps along the Apalachicola River.Some...

The bees in this Florida Panhandle community renowned for its tupelo honey have so far escaped a mysterious killer that has wiped out a quarter of the nation's bee colonies.Honeybees in the Apalachicola River swamps around Wewahitchka have been busy making the premium, floral-flavored honey...

[Tupelo Honey], like all of Van Morrison's albums, is both a synthesis of what has preceded it and a statement of something new. It has the musical compactness of Moondance and some of the spirited looseness of Van Morrison His Band and The Street Choir. It is also the best sounding recording he has done so far…. Thematically, Van's songs of dedication and devotion to women are elevated and transformed into an opus. Tupelo Honey is Morrison's "domestic" album and as...

Finally we have Van Morrison's long-awaited LP [Tupelo Honey]. Weeks before the album was available, the two singles, Tupelo Honey and Wild Night, were already smash hits, and with good reason. The title song is one of the most joyous love melodies to have come around in a long time…. With that kind of preview, it was surely an album to look forward to. But now that it's here, it seems anticipation outstripped fulfillment. This album, like Morrison himself, should appeal mostly to very ...